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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the blood; sanguine; brownish red.
  • adjective (Physiol.) a hypothetical acid, supposed to be formed from hemoglobin during its oxidation in the lungs, and to have the power of freeing carbonic acid from the sodium carbonate of the serum.

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